<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b> </b></font></div><div><div><br></div><div>Iraj (and Afshin and Ralph) is a master storyteller in the old Persian way. In this performance he tells a story from the Shah Nameh, about the battle between Sohrad and Rustum (son and father). He does it to classical Iranian music, and Ralph gives a synopsis in English so that it's easy to follow the story.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a riveting experience of a true Persian story-teller, reciting a classical text in as close as one might get to the original context outside of Iran. Iraj has performed this as both the Asia Society and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div> </div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>